Religion News

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Two students at Syracuse University are facing hate crime charges after authorities say one of them tossed a bag of pork into a Jewish fraternity house that was holding a Rosh Hashanah celebration

12:43 PM on Wednesday, September 24

Sister Jean, the longtime chaplain for Loyola Chicago's men's basketball team, has retired at 106 because of health concerns

11:43 AM on Wednesday, September 24

A drone launched by Yemen’s Houthi rebels wounded 22 people in the southern Israeli city of Eilat on Wednesday, according to medics

11:39 AM on Wednesday, September 24

Israeli medics say 20 wounded, 2 of them seriously, after drone from Yemen hits southern city of Eilat

11:02 AM on Wednesday, September 24

Lawmakers and activists are urging U.S. tech firms to stop selling surveillance equipment to Chinese police

7:12 AM on Wednesday, September 24

Pope Leo XIV has named a successor to the embattled archbishop of New Orleans two weeks after the archdiocese agreed to a $230 million settlement for survivors of clergy sexual abuse

1:27 AM on Wednesday, September 24

Noor Abu Hassira is one of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians staying in Gaza City as Israel presses on with an offensive to take it over

1:12 AM on Wednesday, September 24

Saudi Arabia's grand mufti has died

12:02 AM on Wednesday, September 24

A debate has been sparked among Black pastors who are trying to square a heroic view of Charlie Kirk, the 31-year-old conservative activist who was gunned down in Utah this month, with the insulting statements about people of color that were key to his political activism

11:15 PM on Tuesday, September 23

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A South African man's prophecy about the Rapture has gone viral

5:12 PM on Tuesday, September 23

Mexican megachurch leader Naasón Joaquín García has made his first appearance in a New York federal court, pleading not guilty to sex trafficking charges

5:09 PM on Tuesday, September 23

The Archdiocese of Chicago plans to honor Sen. Dick Durbin with a lifetime achievement award, sparking controversy over his support for abortion rights

11:13 AM on Tuesday, September 23

Myanmar’s Phaung Daw Oo Pagoda Festival is a major Buddhist celebration, but recent challenges have dampened its spirit

12:11 AM on Tuesday, September 23

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Every two decades for the last 1,300 years, Japan’s most revered Shinto shrine of Ise Jingu has been knocked down and rebuilt from scratch

12:05 AM on Tuesday, September 23

A growing number of experts have said Israel’s offensive in the Gaza Strip amounts to genocide, deepening Israel’s isolation and risking untold damage to the country’s standing even among allies

12:02 AM on Tuesday, September 23

Each generation, Ise Jingu, Japan’s most revered Shinto shrine, is knocked down and rebuilt from scratch, a massive, $390 million demolition and construction job that takes about nine years

2:28 PM on Monday, September 22

The 82-year-old leader of the Unification Church has been arrested in an investigation into allegations that the church bribed the wife of jailed former President Yoon Suk Yeol and a conservative lawmaker